Editing Burt Lancaster (section)

===Hecht and Lancaster===
[[File:Burt Lancaster 1960.jpg|thumb|A drawing of Lancaster after he won an Oscar for ''Elmer Gantry'', 1960. Artist: [[Nicholas Volpe]]]]
Lancaster played the title role in ''[[Elmer Gantry (film)|Elmer Gantry]]'' (1960), written and directed by Richard Brooks for United Artists. The film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor. Lancaster won the [[33rd Academy Awards|1960 Academy Award]] for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and the [[New York Film Critics Award]] for his performance.

Hecht and Lancaster worked together on ''[[The Young Savages]]'' (1961), directed by [[John Frankenheimer]] and produced by Hecht. [[Sydney Pollack]] worked as a dialogue coach.

Lancaster starred in ''[[Judgment at Nuremberg]]'' (1961) for [[Stanley Kramer]], alongside [[Spencer Tracy]], [[Richard Widmark]] and a number of other stars. The film was both a commercial and critical success, receiving eleven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.

He then did another film with Hecht and Frankenheimer (replacing [[Charles Crichton]]), ''[[Birdman of Alcatraz (film)|Birdman of Alcatraz]]'' (1962), a largely fictionalized biography. In it he plays [[Robert Stroud]], a federal prisoner incarcerated for life for two murders, who begins to collect birds and over time becomes an expert in bird diseases, even publishing a book. The film shows Stroud transferred to the maximum security Alcatraz prison where he is not allowed to keep birds and as he ages he gets married, markets bird remedies, helps stop a prison rebellion, and writes a book on the history of the U.S. penal system, but never gets paroled.

The sympathetic performance earned Lancaster a Best Actor Oscar nomination, a BAFTA Award for Best Actor, and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Dramatic Role. Hecht went on to produce five films without Lancaster's assistance, through his company Harold Hecht Films Productions between 1961 and 1967, including another Academy Award winner, ''[[Cat Ballou]]'', starring [[Lee Marvin]] and [[Jane Fonda]].